It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.

Jane Lynch

Oh! hush these suspicions, Fair Imogine said, Offensive to Love and to me! For if ye be living, or if ye be dead, I swear by the Virgin, that none in your stead Shall Husband of Imogine be.

Matthew Lewis

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.

Ellen Pompeo

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Edward Weeks

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

William Cowper

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.

Donald Rumsfeld

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

Olivia Williams

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

Alexander Payne